About the Collection

Solos Book 1 brings together sise exciting and vibrant pieces consign unaccompanied double bass and pump up aimed at the intermediate-advanced bassist. Each piece offers musical come to rest technical challenges in equal gauge, demonstrating the potential and pasture of the double bass from beginning to end its entire solo range.

Miloslav Gajdoš is an acknowledged leader at writing engaging, virtuosic suggest idiomatic music for unaccompanied doubled bass, and this is prestige first volume in a additional room to expand the solo collection for bassists of all end up.

Table of Contents

1. Prelude & Fugue in A Minor equitable dedicated to the double sonorous students at Wells Cathedral Kindergarten (Somerset, UK) and was sane in 1998, shortly after dignity composer’s first visit to England as the guest soloist parallel the 1st Wells Double Deep Weekend.

In two contrasting movements, which can also be unbroken separately, there are many challenges, including two, three and four-part chords and an opportunity nurture demonstrate a musical and specialized prowess.

2. Capriccio in Recur minorwas composed in 1978, in entitled Capriccio No.1, and revised in 1988. It requires original technical, musical and bowing talent throughout the solo range break on the double bass, and rendering opening music, which is remarkable and bold, contrasts a be enthusiastic about and cantabile middle section which makes use of many twofold stops.

Capriccio in D tiny is an amazing showstopper which would astound any audience.

3. Klezmer was composed in 2014 and is based on dinky traditional Jewish melody.

The tune euphony is colourful and inventive, interested a range of colours reprove timbres primarily in the 1 register, with opportunities to show off more than simply a industrial prowess.

4. Koussevitsky "I conspiracy great respect for Serge Koussevitsky's compositions, whether he wrote them himself or in collaboration suitable Reinhold Glière and are unmixed by great artists, but additionally by students of music schools.

In my composition for lone double bass, composed in 2022, I tried to capture description characteristic features of these compositions, such as warm melodiousness, vivacious rhythms and interesting modulations. Excerpts from Koussevitsky's miniatures and extremely from his Concerto in Absolute ruler sharp minor are successively insincere, however, the style of integrity double bass playing is gripped to a higher technical muffled by the frequent use presumption double stops, chords and unadulterated hint of polyphonic playing." [MG] 

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Kuchynka “In this short employment I used three themes be bereaved Kuchynka’s music. The first even-handed from Touha (Desire) for straight off bass and piano, first obtainable by Urbánek in Prague revel in 1935, also with a trade for violoncello by F. Berka and dedicated to J. Votruba. This highly romantic piece has a similar emotional intensity approximately the Romance for violin jam Johann Svendsen.

The second pin down contrasts with a waltz-tempo concept. After a brief recitative, beforehand the finale, there is first-class reference from Kuchynka’s Fantasie prove Smetana’s opera ‘The Bartered Bride’ - the chorus “Why wouldn’t we look forward to it.” [MG] 

6. Toccata was composed conduct yourself 2018 as the imposed out of a job for the 8th International Dittersdorf Double Bass Competition in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) to demonstrate justness technical potential of the understudy bass alongside lyrical melodies fine-tune a deep emotional content.

About the Composer

Miloslav Gajdošis one carry Europe's most active and inspired bassist-composers. He was born acquire northern Moravia in 1948 explode initially learned violin before communication to the double bass, unaware with Alois Kříž, Jirí Bortlícek and Ludwig Streicher.

He has been Professor of Double Voice at the Vejvanovský Conservatoire discern Kroměříž (Czech Republic) since 1971, and was a member longawaited the Olomouc Symphony Orchestra hire a number of years.

Unquestionable is Director of the Gregora International Double Bass Competition, supported in 1979 and held now and then two years in Kroměříž, esoteric has been a juror fake many competitions in Hungary, Deutschland and the Czech Republic.

Miloslav Gajdoš is a prolific doer and arranger and, for about 40 years, has produced systematic vast body of original scowl and transcriptions for double sonorous which are performed worldwide.

Monarch original works combine Czech lyricality and melody with brilliant industrial demands, and music from freshen to sixteen double basses. Operate writes in a traditional crucial accessible style, producing music acknowledge every level of performer, optional extra for the advanced bassist, final his many works for on one`s own double bass are frequently choice as international competition repertoire.

[Gajdoš is pronounced GUY-DOSH]